NY Times Opinion hires Wired’s Whitney

Sam Whitney

Sam Whitney has been hired by the New York Times Opinion as an art director with the design team.

Previously, he was a senior designer at Wired in San Francisco, where he designed, illustrated and art directed for its print pages and website. Whitney’s conceptual storytelling talent has been recognized by AIGA and the Society of Publication Designers.

He received his bachelor of fine arts from Syracuse University, majoring in communication design with a minor in policy studies.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.